Crush 04, a 12-u softball team, played 14-u at CAMSPORTS-USA's Macon Showdown played Saturday at the Highway 49 Complex.  The team went undefeated on the day, winning first place.

For 26 years, Bleckley head tennis coach Brad Sanders has put great boys and girls tennis teams on the court.  Teams that won multiple region titles.  But in those 26 years, none had ever played for a state title.  Many of those years, each team would fall short in the semifinals.

That streak was broke this week as the girls won a neutral court match against Berrien High School and the boys defeated Thomasville in Thomasville to claim state championship berths.  Saturday, they would, as Sanders later said at an impromptu celebratory pep rally held on the courthouse square, "finish the job."

BCHS swept the state tennis championships.  The girls won 3-0 against Screven County.  The boys won 3-2.  

Bleckley County High Shool alumni Sam Haupt will speak at an event sponsored by the Cochran Women's Club May 9 at 3:30 pm.  It will be held at the Community House, 193 Third St.  Haupt, Executive Director of Sacred Roots Farm in Gainesville, will present a program entitled "Human Trafficking Doex Exist Here."  According to their their website, Sacred Roots provides a home on a working, sustainable farm to trafficked and exploited women and children.